Holger Schmidt is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics at UCSC. He directs the Applied Optics group and the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics, and serves as the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Engineering. For more on Prof. Schmidt's background, please click here.

STAFF SCIENTIST

Dr. Tom Yuzvinsky

Tom runs the SOE Cleanroom and the Nanofabrication Lab for the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, where he worked on carbon nanotube devices. He is interested in the application of nanotechnology at the interface between physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. For more on Dr. Yuzvinsky's background, please click here.

POSTDOCS

Dr. Aadhar Jain

Aadhar holds a postdoctoral position in Electrical Engineering at UCSC. He received his PhD from Cornell University in the department of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked on optofluidic devices for biofuel energy production. His research interests focus on biological applications of the hollow core optofluidic platform.

Dr. Weigang Yang

Weigang holds a postdoctoral position in Electrical Engineering at UCSC. He received his PhD from the department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. His PhD project was focused on the electric field controlled magnetization in the nanomagnetic thin films. His research interests are in ultrafast magnetization dynamics of nanostructures and spin transfer torque STT-MRAM.

STUDENTS

Jennifer Black

Jennifer is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department. She received her B.S. in Physics from Southern Polytechnic State University in December 2010. She is the recipient of the Chancellor's Fellowship and an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Her research interests include chip-scale atomic spectroscopy, slow and stopped light and nonlinear optics.

Cassidy Berk

Cassidy is a PhD student in electrical engineering. He received his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Georgetown University. His research deals with all-optical switching of nanoscale magnets.

Mike Jaris

Mike is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. He graduated from the
University of Missouri in 2013 with a B.S. in both Physics and
Electrical Engineering. His current research interest is the
characterization of novel spintronic nanostructures.

Gopikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena

Gopi is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department and joined the applied optics group in 2014. He obtained his Integrated Masters in Science (Physics) from University of Hyderabad, India in 2013. His research interests include optofluidic and slow-light devices. Gopi is the recipient of a first-year QB3 Fellowship through the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics.

Alexandra Stambaugh

Lexa is an Electrical Engineering PhD student and joined the Applied Optics group in 2014. She obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. She is the recipient of the Chancellor's Fellowship. Lexa's research interests include optofluidics and its applications.

Md. Mahmudur Rahman

Mahmud is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and he joined the Applied Optics group in 2014. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. His current research interests include nanopore-gated optofluidic devices.

Yucheng Li

Yucheng is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and joined the Applied Optics group in 2016. He obtained his B.S. in Microelectronics from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. His research interests include optofluidics and its applications.

Vahid Ganjalizadeh

Vahid is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and joined the Applied Optics group in 2016. He obtained his Master in Electronics from University of Tabriz, Iran. His research interests include optofluidics and its applications.

Nafiz Amin

Nafiz is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and joined the Applied Optics group in 2017. He obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Bangladesh.

Tyler Sano

Tyler is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Physics in 2018. His current research interests are in optofluidic dye lasers and their applications.

Mohammad Julker Neyen Sampad

Sampad is a PhD student in the Electrical Engineering department and joined the applied optics group in 2018. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2017. Sampad is the recipient of a first-year QB3 Fellowship through the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics

Sujung Kim

Sujung is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and joined the Applied Optics group in 2018. She obtained her M.S. in Physics from Ewha Womans University in Korea in 2016. Before joining the group, she was a student researcher in the department of Material Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley. She is the recipient of the Chancellorís Fellowship. Sujungís research interests include nanomagnetic materials and spintronic devices.